# Drawn animation that should be redone as CGI **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 13, 2016, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drawn-animation-that-should-be-redone-as-cgi/754650 "2016-05-13T02:05:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drawn-animation-that-should-be-redone-as-cgi/754650/1 "2016-05-13T02:05:37Z")
Once upon a time the only practical way for films to depict something that doesn’t actually exist was either “special effects” of varying quality, or drawn animation. But now that computer graphics have made tremendous advances, it occurred to me that a lot of animation could be remade using CGI. My suggestion is _ **Fantastic Planet** _, which would be spectacular depicted Avatar fashion. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drawn-animation-that-should-be-redone-as-cgi/754650/2 "2016-05-13T13:04:07Z")
I can’t imaging CGI making **Fantastic Planet** anything but worse. **Forbidden Planet** might benefit; the monster is too cartoony. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drawn-animation-that-should-be-redone-as-cgi/754650/3 "2016-05-13T13:55:54Z")
It would be cool for the _Zootopia_ team to go back and update Disney’s _Robin Hood_. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2016, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drawn-animation-that-should-be-redone-as-cgi/754650/4 "2016-05-14T19:31:18Z")
Watership Down. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2016, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drawn-animation-that-should-be-redone-as-cgi/754650/5 "2016-05-14T19:49:24Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > It would be cool for the _Zootopia_ team to go back and update Disney’s _Robin Hood_. Specially when I remember how it was made in the days when the Xerox system was used, when pencil lines where photocopied and then colored eliminating the inking that was once made. > **[The Advent of Xerography: Disney's One Hundred and One Dalmatians - Reactor](https://reactormag.com/the-advent-of-xerography-disneys-one-hundred-and-one-dalmatians/)** > > After the expensive financial flop that was Sleeping Beauty, Walt Disney seriously considered shutting down his studio’s animation division.  Fewer than half of his animated films had been financial successes, after all, and although World War... > [@](#): > > Walt felt it was a step back to earlier, cruder animation techniques, and disliked it. But if less artistic, xerography was also considerably cheaper, saving Disney millions in production costs. The process was so successful that Disney almost completely abandoned the process of hand inked cels, using xerography for almost all of their features from The Sword in the Stone until The Little Mermaid, until the process was again replaced for The Rescuers Down Under and further films by a new system called CAPS, developed by a little firm called Pixar. So, yeah, it was more economical; and that leads me to realize how more inexcusable it was for Disney to blatantly reuse a lot of previous animation for Robin Hood. So yeah, I think it would be cool to do a remake. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2016, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drawn-animation-that-should-be-redone-as-cgi/754650/6 "2016-05-14T20:21:24Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > I can’t imaging CGI making **Fantastic Planet** anything but worse. I agree. _Fantastic Planet’s_ unique graphic style is an essential part of the movie. Using CGI would make it an entirely different movie. It would be like remaking _Yellow Submarine_ with CGI. A number of animated films, or new versions, are being remade with CGI (sometimes in combination with live action), like _Alice in Wonderland_ and _The Jungle Book._ _The Lion King_ or _Pinocchio_ might be candidates. ---
**Author:** ![btcg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@btcg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/btcg)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2016, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drawn-animation-that-should-be-redone-as-cgi/754650/7 "2016-05-15T00:28:35Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > I can’t imaging CGI making **Fantastic Planet** anything but worse. > > **Forbidden Planet** might benefit; the monster is too cartoony. Glad it wasn’t just me who said what the … ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2016, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drawn-animation-that-should-be-redone-as-cgi/754650/8 "2016-05-15T00:38:33Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > Watership Down. Due at the end of next year; a BBC/Netflix production. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2016, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drawn-animation-that-should-be-redone-as-cgi/754650/9 "2016-05-15T01:08:22Z")
Talespin. ---
**Author:** ![Goofus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7feea3/32.png) [@Goofus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Goofus)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2016, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drawn-animation-that-should-be-redone-as-cgi/754650/10 "2016-05-15T01:29:04Z")
Transformers: The Movie ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2016, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drawn-animation-that-should-be-redone-as-cgi/754650/11 "2016-05-15T15:57:01Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Due at the end of next year; a BBC/Netflix production. No shit. I really hope they kept close to the soure material. They watered down (heh) the original for kids. ---
**Author:** ![Arkcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Arkcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arkcon)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2016, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drawn-animation-that-should-be-redone-as-cgi/754650/12 "2016-05-15T16:08:47Z")
I always enjoyed the classic _Heavy Metal_ on late night TV, and was pretty excited when I could get it on VHS. Then, meh. The whole Tarrna in flight thing, while I admire from a technical standpoint given the time, is horribly dated. That’s one thing that could be streamlined. Interestingly, the sequel, while surprising us with a maintenance of the Technology Sci-Fi blurring with Sword and Sorcery Fantasy didn’t include a long flight scene. So maybe that’s just better off left off. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2016, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drawn-animation-that-should-be-redone-as-cgi/754650/13 "2016-05-15T19:43:15Z")
> [@Goofus](#): > > Transformers: The Movie That’d be a great one. Get Neill Blomkamp to direct. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2016, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drawn-animation-that-should-be-redone-as-cgi/754650/14 "2016-05-16T00:14:17Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > which would be spectacular depicted Avatar fashion. How about some of the shows _Avatar_ [del]ripped off[/del] paid homage to? _Flash Gordon_ and its knock-offs, _Blackstar_ and _Thundarr the Barbarian_. _Space Ghost_ and _The Herculoids_. Maybe we could get _Buck Rogers_ with decent writers, this time.